Bellandur lake is part of the interconnected lake systems built by
Kempegowda when Bangalore settlement was planned. It is also the largest of the
remaining lakes of Bangalore. The tanks (or what we call as lakes) were man
made storage wells created to provide abundant water to the city, which was
otherwise far away from other sources such as rivers and the sea. The tanks were cascading and built along the
slopes and valleys to accumulate water and also provide the excess collection
to the next tank in line.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Our evening session on World Water Day was an eye-opener. To me, it revealed
some ways in which the world works and its difficult rules.

We reached
“Bangalore Film society” situated in Banaswadi at around 4:30 pm. The facebook
page had indicated that today’s screening would be a short film on water in South
Africa. The film society’s office was covered in green and looked full of purpose.

For World Water Day 2014, we visited two different events this Saturday – one on Rain
water harvesting at Wipro and the other on “Privatization of water” at
Bangalore Film society.

The focus of the Wipro session was on how to savor every bit
of the precious resource that we receive from the sky and different methods
that help in saving water. Wipro had tied up with BIOME (a prominent
environmental group in the city) to conduct the session which consisted of
presentations from individuals who have implemented solutions in their
community or offer consulting on the topic.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Before we attended this event, we had mentioned this topic to
a few of our friends. Most of them were bewildered on how tangentially opposite
topics, “Economics” and “Happiness”, were combined and curious to know what it
is going to be about.

We decided to give it a try mainly because Bhoomi college
was one of the organisers of the event. We had attended the organic gardeningworkshop a few days back at Bhoomi.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

We have been waiting to visit Cotigao from Christmas time
and we made it mandatory on this subsequent visit to Goa. We were excited about
this place because it was part of the all famous Western Ghats – a haven for
animals and birds and one of the bio-diversity hotspots of India. We were also
expecting to see different species than the one that we would have seen at
Bangalore.

This was 20 kms from home – we decided we will leave at 6 am
so as to reach there for the birds “active” time. Even before alarms rang, our lovely
Cock was Up and CrooingJ.
Hes pretty smart and dint want to us to miss on anything for the day.